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Wickham, Wms. C.:

HENRICO COUNTY. MESSRS. JOS. C. BURTON, GARLAND HANES, JAS. T. REDD: GENTLEMEN, - I HAVE RECEIVED A COMMUNICATION, SIGNED BY YOURSELVES AND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT OTHER CITIZENS OF HENRICO COUNTY, CALLING UPON ME 'AS ONE WHO WILL TRULY REPRESENT THE SENTIMENTS OF A MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF HENRICO,' TO ALLOW YOU TO USE MY NAME AS A CANDIDATE FOR HENRICO FOR THE CONVENTION.

Richmond: Jan. 24, 1861. Broadside, 4-7/8" x 8-1/4," laid down on plain paper. Light spotting, Good+. Williams Carter Wickham reluctantly agrees to candidacy as a delegate to Virginia's upcoming Secession Convention. "Should you elect me, I will devote myself to secure all our rights as Virginians and as Southern men..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Moore, Rev. T[homas] V[erner]:

GOD OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH IN THIS WAR. A DISCOURSE BEFORE THE CONGREGATIONS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, ON THE DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING AND PRAYER, APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT DAVIS, FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1861.

Richmond, Va. Published by Hargrave White. 1861. 24pp. Disbound, scattered foxing, Good+. A Panglossian sermon in which Moore recalls "that fatal election which opened Pandora's box in our land." He gives "thanks to Almighty God for that wonderful triumph of Manassas, where the destinies of our young Republic hung..... More

Price: $450.00

[Louisiana]:

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, HELD IN NEW ORLEANS, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1879.

New Orleans: Jas. S. Cosgrove, Convention Printer, 1879. 337, [1 blank], 156 pp, plus two folding tables. Each page printed in two columns. Bound in buckram with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, light rubberstamp on title page. Clean text. Very Good. Last leaf with a tear affecting about five letters of..... More

Price: $500.00

[New Orleans]:

NEW ORLEANS GUIDE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ROUTES TO NEW ORLEANS, SIGHTS OF THE CITY ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, AND OTHER INFORMATION USEFUL TO TRAVELERS; ALSO, OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA, BY HON. JAMES S. ZACHARIE, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS. MAP OF NEW ORLEANS.

New Orleans: F.F. Hansell & Bro., Ltd., [1902]. Original printed decorative and pictorial wrappers, entitled [in pink and black lettering], 'Hansell's Guide to New Orleans Historical Descriptive.' Wrapper spine title. Detailed folding map frontis, listing places and points of interest. Frontis engraving of area around Jackson Square [one closed tear..... More

Price: $275.00

DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SERVANTS: THREE PREMIUM ESSAYS. I. BY THE REV. H.N. McTYEIRE. II. BY THE...

McTyeire, Rev. H.N., et al.:

DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SERVANTS: THREE PREMIUM ESSAYS. I. BY THE REV. H.N. McTYEIRE. II. BY THE REV. C.F. STURGIS. III. BY THE REV. A.T. HOLMES.

Charleston, S.C. Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1851. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine title [spine sunned]. 151, [1] pp. Text lightly foxed, Very Good. The Essays, which "contain matter worthy of the profound and prayerful consideration of the owners of slaves," won the prize offered by the Baptist..... More

Price: $500.00

THE LETTERS OF ALGERNON SYDNEY, IN DEFENCE OF CIVIL LIBERTY AND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENTS OF...

[Leigh, Benjamin W.]:

THE LETTERS OF ALGERNON SYDNEY, IN DEFENCE OF CIVIL LIBERTY AND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENTS OF MILITARY DESPOTISM, WRITTEN BY AN EMINENT CITIZEN OF VIRGINIA, AND FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER IN 1818-19. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, IN AN APPENDIX, THE REMARKS OF MR. RITCHIE AS REFERRED TO BY THE AUTHOR OF "ALGERNON SYDNEY" IN PAGE 30 OF THIS PAMPHLET. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE PRESENT PUBLISHER.

Richmond: Printed and Published by T.W. White, 1830. viii, [1]-49, [1 blank], [55]-65, [1 blank] pp [as issued]. Bound into attractive modern two-toned cloth. Scattered foxing, Good+. "An arraignment of General Andrew Jackson" [Swem], accusing him of "a temper at once vindictive and tyrannical," of offering "the bribe of..... More

Price: $500.00

Hammond, James:

SPEECH OF HON. JAMES H. HAMMOND, DELIVERED AT BARNWELL C.H., OCTOBER 29TH, 1858.

Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co, 1858. 28pp, original printed wrappers [loosened from text block], stitched. Elaborate contemporary pencil notes in margins from a contemporary supporter of Hammond's, ending with, "Amen," after Hammond's call for "the union of the slaveholders of the South." Very Good. The..... More

Price: $375.00

New Orleans:

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF TWO HUNDRED CITIZENS APPOINTED AT A MEETING OF THE RESIDENT POPULATION OF NEW ORLEANS, ON THE 12TH DECEMBER, 1872.

New Orleans: Picayune Steam Press, 1873. Original printed wrappers [clean, but with a bit of corner wear] with wrapper title [as issued]. 27, [1 blank] pp. Minor wear, clean text, Very Good plus. [offered with] Typescript Letter, laid in, from New Orleans, March 22, 1873, [1] page: 'Dear Sir..... More

Price: $450.00

Barnwell, Wm. H.:

A CAUTION AGAINST HUMAN DEPENDENCE. A SERMON, DELIVERED IN ST. PETER'S CHURCH, CHARLESTON, ON SUNDAY, THE 7TH OF APRIL, 1850. BY...RECTOR OF ST. PETERS. ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF THE HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN.

Charleston: Edward C. Councell, 1850. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed pale blue wrappers. Light foxing, Very Good. Inscribed by Barnwell on the front wrapper to Captain John Fripp. Elegant signatures on the plain rear wrapper of 'T.J. Capen Beaufort S.C.' Mourning the loss of the "great..... More

Price: $350.00

Election of 1812:

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, ACTING UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, IN SUPPORT OF THE NOMINATION OF THE HON. DE WITT CLINTON, TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE ENSUING ELECTION.

New York: Pelsue and Gould, 1812. 28pp, disbound. Some toning, light wear. Good+. Fueled by jealousy of Virginia's near-monopoly on the presidency, New Yorkers urge the nomination of De Witt Clinton in order to deny President Madison a second term. The dangers of jealousy among the States require that "Virginia..... More

Price: $450.00

[Southern Rights]:

THE ADDRESS OF SOUTHERN DELEGATES IN CONGRESS, TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

[Washington: 1849]. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. An early attempt, after the close of the Mexican War and just before Zachary Taylor's inauguration, to organize the South with a single pro-slavery voice. Drafted initially by John C. Calhoun, the Address was deemed by some Southern congressman..... More

Price: $350.00

Southern Democrats in the Election of 1844:

SOUTHERN STATE RIGHTS, ANTI-TARIFF & ANTI-ABOLITION TRACT NO. 1. LETTER OF HON. LANGDON CHEVES, TO THE CHARLESTON MERCURY, ON SOUTHERN WRONGS, SEPT. 1844.

[Charleston? 1844]. 40 pp. Bound in modern quarter red morocco and marbled paper over boards. Minor scattered foxing, Very Good plus. A rare Southern Nationalist tract opposing the election of Henry Clay in 1844, warning of the imminent threat to the South's cherished institution of slavery, supporting the Texas annexation..... More

Price: $500.00

JOURNALS OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTIONS OF THE DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1860-1870. PROTESTANT...

North Carolina:

JOURNALS OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTIONS OF THE DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1860-1870. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

1860. Eleven Journals, 1860-1870. All printed in North Carolina, with the following imprints: 1860-1864, Fayetteville [by Hale]; 1865, Raleigh [Gorman]; 1866-1868 & 1870, Fayetteville; 1869, Raleigh [Littlefield]. Each Journal @60-128 pp. Bound together in later buckram. First editions, scattered fox and tan, none with original wrappers. Light scattered wear, corner..... More

Price: $1,000.00

[Fremont, John C.]:

INFIDELITY AND ABOLITIONISM. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FRIENDS OF RELIGION, MORALITY, AND THE AMERICAN UNION.

np. 1856. Caption title [as issued], 7pp. Disbound, scattered light foxing, else Very Good. An attack on the Republicans and Fremont in their first contest for the Presidency, charging that they form "a widely-extended conspiracy" to destroy the Union, and seek to assail "all true religion." This document accuses..... More

Price: $250.00

Quandary, Christopher [pseud.]:

SOME SERIOUS CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES, WITH REGARD TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; WITH THE AUTHOR'S OWN CASE FAIRLY STATED, AND SUBMITTED TO ALL CANDID AND COMPASSIONATE MEN.

Richmond: Thomas W. White, 1827. 24pp, disbound, lightly foxed and toned, Good+. The pseudonymous author seeks to resolve the "state of distressing perplexity in which I find myself:" to vote for Jackson, or for Adams? He reviews the charges hurled at each candidate, the claims of their supporters, and..... More

Price: $250.00

[Kentucky]:

MANUSCRIPT ANSWER OF DANIEL SULLIVAN [JR.] TO A BILL IN CHANCERY AGAINST HIM AND THOMAS BULLITT BY CHARLES LYNCH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

[Knox County, KY: 1807]. Folio broadsheet, 8" x 13". Completely in neat ink manuscript. Answer prepared on recto with signature of Daniel Sullivan. From "Indiana Territory Knox County," it is certified and signed on the verso on June 25, 1807, by E[liju] Stout as Justice of the Peace, and by..... More

Price: $450.00

LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS...

Holt, Joseph:

LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS PROBABLE RESULTS IF SUCCESSFUL, AND THE DUTY OF KENTUCKY IN THE CRISIS.

Louisville, Ky. Bradley & Gilbert. 1861. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed [generally in the margins]. Portrait of Holt laid down on inner margin of title page [no text affected]. Very Good. A loyal Border State lawyer and Buchanan's last Secretary of War, Holt helped hold Kentucky in..... More

Price: $350.00

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